Hotwire - Internet Private Limited is an ISP which provides 24-7 always
on Internet connections. You can visit them at http://www.hotwireindia.net.
I do not claim any affiliation with Hotwire or Primus Telecommunications
India Limited (the parent company) or anybody else thereof. I am just
a user of Hotwire services and promise to abide by their terms of usage/service.

Why Hotclient?

People would ask wasn't the authentication software provided by Primus
good enough. Well their software can be got from their website at http://hotwireindia.net/Hotwire.exe.
Other clients are available as well at the below links

But I have a actual 24-7 connection. Whenever the network fails or the
server goes down for a reboot all these clients just exit out of the program.

Well .....Hello! I'm not at my desk at all times. What I needed was a
client which picks up the connection as and when it becomes available
again so that my downloads would continue. Hence the first version for
Linux was born (I'm better at gcc than VC, besides i don't actually have
a valid copy of VC). The Perl version started and was finished on the
same day.

Once I did that well I just went ahead and did the same for Windows.
Both the GCC and Win-GCC versions are shell based programs.

Usage and Features

Current features are very basic. If you have the binary version you just
go to your command/shell. and type

hotclient <username> <password> <Server-IP>
[Persist]

username : your username

password : your password

Server-IP : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (like mine is 210.7.88.1)

Persist : is an optional argument which when set reconnects after being
disconnected for a minute.

Future Plans

Well the next order of business is a GTK and a graphical windows version.
after that well